The recent Walmart shooter is another evil monster ... and it appears he was inspired to his evil act by the wave of illegal immigrants streaming across our southern border (why he chose El Paso, Texas). And President Trump is fighting to stop this same invasion of (mostly) Hispanics. Therefore, using knee-jerk logic, President Trump is responsible for the grisly death of many innocent back-to-school shoppers yesterday ... no matter what their ethnic background.
This is the media narrative that a great many Americans ... and probably all the Democrat candidates for president will adopt to bludgeon Trump into supporting some form of additional controls on guns in America. (Not something that the shooter had apparently thought a lot about.)
These calls for greater gun control ... even mass gun confiscations ... are already echoing across the land. I’m sure soon most gun grabbers will be shouting and arm waving about the evils of the Second Amendment and, many of them, calling for its repeal. That’s what happened in New Zealand recently ... and it worked. Now, owning a civilian gun in Kiwi country is a crime.
Yes, I know that 20 died and 26 were injured in this current massacre. And that this was the second mass shooting this week (at the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, CA) where 3 died and 15 were wounded. And in both incidents, the nut-job shooters used semi-automatic rifles that had been acquired under current gun regulations. Therefore, we need more regulations ... even mass gun confiscations. Bad idea.
I don’t know why these mostly young men decide that killing lots of people is fun sport. I don’t think anyone really does. But I do know that, like all such evil madness (remember the Wild West?), things will eventually return to sanity ... at which point, if we have chosen the New Zealand solution, we will have performed an evil act that dwarfs what we have recently witnessed. Killing the Second Amendment ... or even crippling it ... will make our nation vulnerable to horrors unimagined. And, assuredly, they will eventually come galloping in ... on stallions of oppressive malevolence.
Dear reader, I guess I will never understand how liberals can say that such a totalitarian situation will never happen here ... yet then avow that Trump is a crypto-Nazi ... I scratch my head ...
